I get this question all the time, like every other photographer on the planet, and it often sparks heated debates that challenge the notion of objective reality and the meaning of photography.
Two weeks ago I unboxed the Sony a7R Mark IV mirrorless camera, the high resolution beast, and brought it with me for a field review in the mountains around Santa Clara in Northern California.
The a7R Mark IV is the latest mirrorless flagship from Sony. Sporting a big 61MP Exmor R Full Frame Sensor, the a7R Mark IV is capable of 15 stops of dynamic range in a small package. Sony started shipping the a7R Mark IV on the 12th of September and I just received mine.
My business has an environmental impact that I can not ignore: from the electricity I need to work on the images to, more importantly, the paper I use to print them, every image I create has a non negligible carbon balance.
Photography is a form of communication, a language with its grammar and uses. I talk more in depth about some of the technical details of Composition in this article on Visual Wilderness (How to Compose Photos to Tell Your Story).
White Sands Monument Park, in New Mexico, is the largest desert of its kind in the world, made of gypsum sand and white dunes all the way up to the horizon, the glistering whiteness looks like snow, almost tricking your senses into believing you are in front of a winter scene.